The first wreck of a ship trading in Mayan slaves ever to be found has been identified in Mexican waters by researchers from the country’s National Institute of Anthropology & History (INAH). Read more...

French freediver Arnaud Jerald has claimed a world record of 112m in the Constant Weight with Bi-Fins discipline – continuing a rivalry with the Russian Alexey Molchanov who had set a 111m record just days before.  Read more...

TO ENSURE prompt delivery of DIVER Magazine during the current period of coronavirus disruption a special FREE digital version of the OCTOBER issue has been produced to replace the normal paper copy. Read more...

The husband of a woman who died after being caught in a dive-boat’s propellers has brought a legal action for negligence against the charter-boat operator, claiming that a similar incident had occurred the previous day on the vessel’s first outing as a dive-boat. Read more...

The USS Grenadier, one of 52 US Navy submarines lost during WW2, has been claimed as found by a technical-diving team at a depth of 83m off the coast of Thailand. Read more...

One of the Bahamas’ longest-established dive-centres has been forced to cease trading as a US $9 million compensation claim for a US diver’s death some 17 years ago has finally been enforced. Read more...

The Health & Safety Executive has censured the Ministry of Defence for the death of a military diver who ran out of gas while training at the National Diving & Activity Centre inland site two years ago. Read more...

A US scuba diver using an ROV has located two paddle-wheels that have been missing from an historic steamboat wreck for more than 200 years, in Lake Champlain, Vermont. Read more...

US media has been excited about 100-year-old Illinois man Bill Lambert claiming a Guinness World Record (GWR) for oldest scuba diver, after he took a lake plunge to celebrate his centenary. Read more...